Glamour model Katie Price's battles with mental health have been explained by her mum Amy in a new tell-all memoir.
Writing in her memoir The Last Word, mum Amy has opened up about the star's childhood and teenage years recalling moments that she believes have shaped the star's insecurities and mental health. In detail she recalls seven year old Katie being sexually assaulted as well as being sexualised at a young age as she entered the modelling industry.
Amy, who is living with an incurable lung condition, has also addressed her daughter's glamour model alter ego Jordan as she labels her "like an actress going on stage".
Speaking in her book, Amy recalls a horrific moment from Katie's past when she was abused by a paedophile. She describes the day it happened as “being idyllic to nightmarish” after Katie alongside a pal was lured away from a picnic before being molested and assaulted.
According to The Sun, in her book Amy writes: "After this I noticed Kate becoming more body-conscious.
"I think it set up difficulties in relating to men. She needed proper therapy but it just wasn’t available back then, especially not for working-class people like us.
“In fact, I never heard her speak about it again until she was interviewed by Piers Morgan years later in 2009.
"He asked her about it and she broke down in floods of tears."
Amy also recalls another event for Katie as she began modelling in her tten years and was pressured by a photographer to pose in just a T-shirt. Whilst Katie refused, mum Amy believes this also shaped her insecurities and helped her to create the outrageous and bolshy character Jordan.
Mum Amy also opened up about daughter Katie's alter ego Jordan, describing the character as a way for Katie to cover up her insecurities.
She explained: "I would watch my vulnerable, ordinary daughter Kate take off her comfy tracksuit and slippers and put on thick make-up and outrageous outfits, ready to go out into the world as Jordan.
"She’d simply say, ‘I’m off to work now Mum’ and the next day I would see photographs of her falling out of clubs drunk and playing up to the cameras.
“It was like an actress going on stage and I think she began to lose sight of who she really was.”
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